Needwood Grove
SpecialIndustrial
Needwood Grove is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near West Bromwich. It received special (hazardous) and industrial waste from 1955, covering about 3.51 hectares. Reference EAHLD23712, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23712 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Needwood Grove |
| Address | Hall Green Road, Stone Cross, West Bromwich, West Midlands |
| Site operator | British Industries Plastics Limited |
| Licence holder | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1955 |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 3.51 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 401000, 294500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Special:
- the licensing-era term for hazardous waste — asbestos, chemicals, oils. The category that most warrants a closer look.
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
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- J.H. Lavender and CompanyIndustrialInert
- Carisbrooke RoadIndustrial
- Bustleholme QuarryIndustrialInert
- Westminster RoadWaste types not recorded
- Friar Park Road Landfill SiteIndustrialInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.